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The Duke - A Portrait of Prince Philip was completely unastonishing

At last, you have him at your mercy. Britain's Mr Big. The shadowy, mysterious figure who pulls the strings of government through his ruthless network of MI6 agents. The man accused of ordering Princess Diana's car crash. The man who, at the very least, won't be shopping at Harrods in the near future. So, what to ask the Duke of Edinburgh?

A surprise, then, that one of the first things Trevor McDonald wanted to know in The Duke - A Portrait of Prince Philip (Monday and Tuesday, ITV1) was whether Sandringham's solar panels were any good. Not really, as it happens. It was the unastonishing answer to many unastonishing questions.

The first hint that The Duke - A Portrait of Prince Philip was going to be a touch short on jaw-dropping revelations came early on, when we saw Sir Trevor and the duke doing a sound check. "Would you count from one